Ghulam Ali Event Cancelled By Delhi Hotel Allegedly After Threat

New Delhi: Legendary Pakistani artiste Ghulam Ali's event has been cancelled by a Delhi hotel allegedly over a threat by the fringe group Hindu Sena.

The ghazal singer was to launch the music of 'Ghar Wapsi', a film by TV personality Suhaib Illyasi, this evening at the Royal Plaza hotel in the centre of Delhi.

While cancelling the press interaction, hotel officials allegedly cited threats by the Hindu Sena as well as the Bajrang Dal, an outfit affiliated to the RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Suhaib Ilyasi had also filed a police complaint saying he had been threatened on the phone by Vishnu Gupta, the chief of the Hindu Sena.

"It is regrettable that Ghulam Ali's music launch has been cancelled by the hotel management. We were told not to keep the event here as they feared that people from Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Hindu Sena would disrupt it and destroy hotel property," he told reporters.

'Ghar Wapsi' - based on a term for 'homecoming' that came to symbolize religious conversions in 2014 - features the singer who is believed to have sung and composed an Indian patriotic song in the movie.

Ghulam Ali's performance in Mumbai was cancelled in October over aggressive protests by the Shiv Sena, which rules Maharashtra along with the BJP.

Since then, the 75-year-old singer has performed in Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram and Lucknow.